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View synonyms for shut up

shut up

verb

  1. tr to prevent all access to
  2. tr to confine or imprison
  3. informal.
    to cease to talk or make a noise or cause to cease to talk or make a noise: often used in commands
  4. intr (of horses in a race) to cease through exhaustion from maintaining a racing pace
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Which was sweet and also troubling, because it meant that I have never shut up about wanting to be Peter Pan.

“Sit down and shut up” was how all important family discussions began and ended where the rest of America grew up.

“RR—All of us tell everyone in our shops to shut up,” Weinberger recorded the president saying.

As Ransdell walks off, students can be heard muttering “go away,” and “shut up.”

However, telling them they could have shut up and put up is patently unfair.

Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.

The gnarled hands shut up into clenched fists, and the feeble voice trailed off in an agonized moan.

I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

These mulls are placed in rows and shut up in separate cupboards, to keep in the dust.

Holy thoughts and affections unexpressed are sometimes like a fire shut up in the bones.

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